Damien & The Love Guru

Being an agent on the battleground of paintings’ history might be less dirty than his canvases, since hijacking in these deposits is a foundation of art. However his distinct mission is the disentanglement of appropriations for the disorientation of myths behind cultural and national identity, stabilised in the spirit of expressionism. His work is not adding difference to that story, it is stressing the ties between obedience and resistance.

Education

• MA Fine Art, in the class of Michael Krebber, Städelschule, Frankfurt a.M., 2017
• MA Fine Art, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg, 2016 ​​

Solo & duo exhibitions

• hello driver!, OSL contemporary, Oslo, 2025
• Just us (who are apart), with Melanie Kitti, Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, 2024
• zeit und gefühl, 47 Canal, New York, 2024
• Gemaelde, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, 2023
• KMS/ACC/FRA/TXL/CPH., presented by Bizarro, 27DAGE Art Hub Copenhagen, Copenhagen, 2022
• Heimweh, Santolarosa/Centralbanken, Oslo, 2022
• Schwarzarbeit, with Stella Sieber, hosted by Mother Culture, Come Over Chez Maliks, Hamburg, 2021
• Man and Sea, Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, 2020
• Colleages, Sangt Hipolyt, Berlin, 2019
• Keeping Up Appearances, with Bradley Davis, Neuer Essener Kunstverein, 2018
• Time Delay, Bad Bentheim, Bentheim, 2017
• Blackberry, Jacky Strenz, Frankfurt a.M., 2016
• Mickael Marman, Johan, Frankfurt a.M., 2016
• Layer, Johan Berggren Gallery, Malmo, 2014

Selected group exhibitions

• Constellations, 47 Canal, New York, 2025
• Hard Scent Salon, Copenhagen, 2024
• Works On View, 47 Canal, New York, 2024
• True Colors, Trautwein Herleth, Berlin, 2024
• Having a party (hope you will be there), hosted by Damien & The Love Guru, Conceptual Fine Arts, Milan, 2021
• Salon Solaire, Sun Works, Zurich, 2021
• Living As, hosted by Sangt Hipolyt, Loggia, Munich, 2020
• Untitled (But Loved), Bosse & Baum, London, 2020
• Architecture Now, Cucina, Copenhagen, 2020
• Techos y Ventana, Mexico City, 2019
• Berlin Program for Artists, Beach Office, Berlin, 2019
• Olje Og Begjaer, Qb Gallery, Oslo, 2019
• The Way Things Go Pt 3, PS120, Berlin, 2018
• Home Of The Brave, MMK, Frankfurt a.M., 2017
• Die Walz 2.0, Frankfurt a.M., 2017
• Rödiger Schöttle Galerie, Munich, 2017
• Core Remission, Gr-und, Berlin, 2017
• My Third Wish Has Always Been Three More Infinite Berlin, 2016
• More Is More, Schloss Schöngrabern, Vienna, 2016
• Hoefijzerschilderij, Real Positive, Cologne, 2016
• Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm, No Place, Oslo, 2016
• Neolithic Graffiti, Qb Gallery, Oslo, 2016
• The Human Mountain (Towards the light), Edvard Munch’s Studio, Oslo, 2015
• Absolventen Ausstellung, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg, 2014
• One Needs A Certain Amount Of Trouble, Outpost, Amsterdam, 2013
• --------------- Last Minute Group, Amsterdam, 2012
• Notations, Msg4, Amsterdam, 2011
• Word Perfect, Oslo, 2011
• Slumdogs not Millionares, No Place, Oslo, 2011
• Let The Luvin Take A Hold One Night Only, UKs, Oslo, 2011
• S.N.I.M, Podium, Oslo, 2010
• Oil on Wood, Dortmund Bodega, Oslo, 2010
• Higher Than Hell, Galleri Knekt, Oslo, 2010
• High And Luv, Galleri Tjuvholmen, Oslo, 2010

Art fairs

• Art Basel Miami, group presentation, invited by 47 Canal, 2024
• Hotel Warszawa Art Fair, 2023
• Liste Art Fair Basel, solo presentation, 2023
• NADA Miami, invited by Damien & The Love Guru, Kammer/Rieck, Berlin, 2020
• Artissima, with Anne Fellner, Torino, 2019

Grants and awards

• Norwegian Artists Association, Working Grant, 2018
• Bad Bentheim Ruisdael Stipend, 2017
• Norwegian Cultural Department Diverse Grant for New Educated Artists, 2016
• Norwegian Cultural Department Diverse Grant, 2014

Residencies

• BPA (Berlin Program for Artists), 2018

Related activities

• BBBERLIN at BPA (Berlin Program for Artists), 2022
• Visitor From Another World, writing commission, Nordic Art Review, Oslo, 2021
• Having a party (hope you will be there), publication launch, Saint-Martin Bookshop, Brussels, 2021
• Having a party (hope you will be there), publication launch, Conceptual Fine Arts, Milan, 2021

• Having a party (hope you will be there), edited by Mickael Marman, with a contribution by Olamiju Fajemisin, published by Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, 2021
• Notes Towards, 2018

Published work

• Visitor From Another World, about Lee Scratch Perry, text by Mickael Marman, Kunstkritikk, 2021
• Provence SS 2021: Scandal Issue, edited by Olamiju Fajemisin, Philip Pilekjær and Tobias Kaspar, published by Motto Distributions, Berlin, 2021
• Home Of The Brave, published by MMK, Frankfurt a.M., 2017

• ‘Tribulations of a Child Actor,’ Nora Joung, Kunstkritikk, 2022
• Having a party (hope you will be there), Paris-LA, 2021
• Having a party (hope you will be there), Contemporary Art Library, 2021
• Having a party (hope you will be there), Mousse Magazine, 2021
• Having a party (hope you will be there), Ofluxo, 2021
• Having a party (hope you will be there), Collecteurs, 2021
• Architecture Now, Art Viewer, 2020
• Man and Sea, GalleriesNow, 2020
• Man and Sea, Art Viewer, 2020
• Man and Sea, Emergent Magazine, 2020
• Man and Sea, Daily Lazy, 2020
• NADA Miami, GalleriesNow, 2020
• Keeping Up Appearances, Art Viewer, 2018
• Core Remission, AQNB, 2017